Herman works as a servant in a tiny medieval castle in a forest. When Katnip kidnaps ‘beautiful’ princess Guinevere, Herman comes to the rescue. Rather incongruously, Katnip is dressed in 17th century style, and rides a scooter to his own, much larger, castle, followed by Herman on a bicycle.

There is more melodrama than humor in ‘One Funny Knight’, which makes the cartoon a rather boring watch. Nevertheless, there are some nice perspective stagings.

Watch ‘One Funny Knight’ yourself and tell me what you think:

‘One Funny Knight’ is available on the DVD ‘Herman and Katnip – The Complete Series’

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Because Dave Tendlar left Famous Studios around December 1956, the animation quality suffers at several points (this also applies to Jumping with Toy, 1957, and Grateful Gus, 1958). Apparently, Tendlar disagreed with Paramount’s decision to cut costs, but I have no evidence that this was ever true. Anyway, Princess Guinevere looks disturbingly like a female human with mouse characteristics. This cartoon is so boring, a Round Table meeting provides better entertainment.